Turner Lyness

Turner Lyness (1747-17 January 1781) was a British Army colonel during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Turner Lyness was born in Cirencester, Wiltshire, Great Britain in 1747. Lyness was commissioned into the British Army as a dragoon officer in 1765, and he rose to the rank of colonel as commander of a dragoon regiment during the American Revolutionary War. His regiment was shipped to North America to serve in Banastre Tarleton's legion, and it fought in the American South during the war. In January 1781, Lyness was killed in a cavalry clash at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.